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Category: Private Citizen — Corporate Director Role: Independent Director, Meta Platforms Inc. (META) Board Tenure: 2024 – present Committee Memberships: Risk & Strategy Committee; Audit & Privacy Committee Profile Type: Board Member Accountability — Anchor B (Documented Organizational Leadership)

> Basis for Inclusion: John Arnold holds a documented governance role as an independent director on the Risk & Strategy and Audit & Privacy Committees of Meta Platforms Inc., which made documented political donations to Trump-aligned entities while facing significant regulatory scrutiny. This profile documents the factual governance relationship, not the subject’s personal political views.

> Subject Classification: Private Citizen / Corporate Director. Board membership is a matter of public record (SEC filings, proxy statements). This profile documents only the governance role and its connection to documented corporate political activity.

> What is NOT the basis for inclusion: Arnold’s personal political opinions, party affiliation, public statements, or any protected speech are NOT the basis for inclusion. The basis is solely the documented directorial role and its fiduciary connection to corporate political spending documented in the parent corporate donor profile.

Biographical Overview

John Arnold is a co-founder and Co-Chair of Arnold Ventures, a philanthropic and policy organization he founded with his wife Laura in 2006. Arnold made his fortune as a natural gas trader at Enron, where he was Vice President of Natural Gas Trading, and then as the founder of Centaurus Capital (later Centaurus Energy), a hedge fund focused on energy commodity markets that he ran from 2002 to 2012. He retired from hedge fund management at age 38 after building one of the most successful energy trading track records in history.

Through Arnold Ventures, Arnold has become one of the most influential policy philanthropists in the United States, funding criminal justice reform, public pension reform, and evidence-based policy research. He is also Chairman of Grid United, a company focused on building high-voltage transmission infrastructure for the energy transition. He joined the Meta board in 2024. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Vanderbilt University.

Board Role and Governance Authority

  • Company: Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: META)
  • Board tenure: 2024 – present
  • Committee assignments: Risk & Strategy Committee; Audit & Privacy Committee

Other Current Board Memberships

  • Grid United — Chairman

Parent Corporate Donor Profile

This profile is a governance-accountability companion to the Meta Platforms — Corporate Donor Profile, which documents the corporation’s political spending, pending government business, and favorable outcomes under the Trump administration.

Sources

  • Meta Platforms Inc. DEF 14A Proxy Statement, filed April 16, 2026 (annual meeting May 27, 2026)
  • SEC EDGAR filing: Meta Platforms Inc. (CIK 1326801)
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